水果
fruit
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These natural snacks are often found near vegetables in supermarkets or attached to plants in the wild.
They form a healthy alliance with vegetables and together demand that we eat at least five pieces of them per day.
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This kind of pear is common in China. It is known as “snow pear” (雪梨) in Chinese.
Although sweeter, more acidic and warmer than a snowball, it is watery and almost perfectly round, just like a well-packed snowball.
Due to its roundness, avoid using the phrase “went a bit pear-shaped” with people in China, as they might take it to mean “went very well”.
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Cucumber is another mild, watery fruit.
Is it a fruit?
If a cucumber is small and comes in a box of five or six, then it is safe to call it a fruit. Consume it directly from the hand.
If found in a restaurant, stir-fried with eggs, then you would more likely think of it as a vegetable. Eat it with chopsticks or a fork.
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Mangoes are delicious, but so juicy and sticky that they can be annoying to eat.
Forgotten mangoes first give off a pleasant, sweet smell, reminding you to eat them.
This later develops into a pungent odour, which angers you into detecting the source.
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A banana is something between a food and a bendy drug.
It provides a short burst of energy.
A person living solely on a diet of bananas would likely be quite unstable
It is widely accepted that monkeys eat mostly bananas, which is why they can come across like deranged humans.